Death number in military aircraft crash in Sudan increases to 46
Death number in military aircraft crash in Sudan increases to 46
The fatalities of the crash of a Sudanese military aircraft in the City of Omdurman The authorities announced 46 people, including women and children, announced on Wednesday. This is one of the deadliest aircraft turrets in the northeast African country in the past two decades.
Details on the plane crash
The Antonov aircraft crashed over a populated quarter in Omdurman on Tuesday and injured at least 10 people, as the state-run media office in Khartum reported. First, the Ministry of Health had given a death number of 19.
The military leadership said in a statement that the aircraft had crashed on departure from the air base Wadi Sayidna north of Omdurman, the sister city of the capital Khartum. The crash also damaged several houses in the Karrari district.
victim and investigation
The military previously stated that both members of the armed forces and civilians were among the dead, but did not give any numbers and did not comment on the causes of the crash. The Ministry of Health informed that some of the corpses were brought to the Nau Hospital in Omdurman.
The victims included high -ranking military officers, including major Bahr Ahmed Bahr and Lieutenant Colonel Awad Ayoub. A military officer who wanted to remain anonymous reported that women and children were also among the dead, including five siblings.
reports from the population
According to the local media, the plane was on the way to the Rotmeer-Stadt Port Sudan Government when it crashed over the Al-Thawra district in the Karrari district. Local residents reported loud explosions that were heard after the crash and broadcast thick smoke and dust clouds over Omdurman.
flight accidents in Sudan
Aircraft stagger, a country with a poor security record in aviation, are not unusual. In 2020 at least 16 people died when a military aircraft Western region of Darfur crashed. In 2003, a civil aircraft of the Sudan Airways plunged into a slope during an emergency landing, with 116 people dying, including eight foreigners; Only a boy survived.
The cholera outbreak in Sudan
Sudan also fights a cholera outbreak that has cost 1,472 people in over a dozen provinces in the past few months, as the Ministry of Health announced. The disease has affected around 56,000 people since its discovery in July last year.
There were also more than 70 people among the dead who died in two cities in the province of Weißer Nil at the beginning of this month. In the cities of Kosti and Rabak, over 2,000 other people were diagnosed with the disease.effects of war and the cholera epidemic
The outbreak was found last year during the rainy season between July and October. Heavy rains and floods in particular met the eastern regions of the country, in which millions of refuge were sought. The epidemic is also burdened by the country, which has been suffering from devastating war for almost two years.
Sudan has been in the civil war since 2023, when the tensions between the military and a notorious paramilitary group, Rapid Support Forces, passed into open war. The struggles of devastated urban areas and goods shaped by atrocities, including mass rapes and ethnically motivated murders, which, according to the United Nations and International Human Rights Organizations href = "https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/sudan-genocide-explained/index.html"> war crimes and crimes against humanity are classified, especially in the western region of Darfur.
In the past few months, the war has worsened, with the military made constant progress against the RSF in Khartum and elsewhere in the country.
The RSF, which controlled most areas in Darfur, stated that on Monday in Nyala, the provincial capital of Süddarfur, it was a military aircraft.